Mental Health /

Mental Health / / ed. by Jeremy Weinstein.

Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, soci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Brammer, Andy,
Bremang, Colette,
McDermott, Des,
Moth, Rich,
Sadd, June,
Spandler, Helen,
Tew, Jerry,
Weinstein, Jeremy,
HerausgeberIn:
Weinstein, Jeremy,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (0 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Series editors’ introduction
  • Lead essay
  • Social work and mental health
  • Responses
  • Letting madness breathe? Critical challenges facing mental health social work today
  • Agents of change? Social work for well-being and mental health
  • Connecting psychological stress and colonialism
  • ‘Diagnosis human’: markets, targets and medicalisation in community mental health services
  • The problem with recovery
  • A student social worker’s perspective
  • Observations from the front line
  • Concluding remarks
  • Some concluding thoughts
  • References

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